The textbook considers conflicts and wars as socio-political phenomena: various theories, concepts, typologies of both international and domestic political conflicts with international consequences. The theory and practice of peacekeeping, various forms of intervention of states and international organizations in conflicts and their settlement are analyzed. The policy of the UN, OSCE, NATO, EU, CIS, CSTO and other international organizations regarding conflicts is being considered. The textbook contains a detailed political analysis of the forms and methods of conflict resolution in the post-Soviet space in Tajikistan, Georgia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Moldova, Transnistria, Ukraine, as well as in the far abroad - in the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria. For undergraduates, undergraduates and postgraduates studying international relations, political science and conflict studies.